His wife and Lore’s mother, Mutti (Ursina Lardi) is as repulsed by her husband as she is of her grim fate. It is unclear what role Vati, a Nazi officer, served in the Fuhrer’s machinations, but the ash of unknown origin that drifts like snow over the family’s nearby cabin insinuates the absolute worst and most heinous. For whatever their ages, childhood will end that day when their father (Hans-Jochen Wagner) comes home and implies the command’s desolation is imminent. One girl is in the prime of childhood and one is at the end, but both are ignorant of the blood soaked sand their idyllic life is built upon. Her pre-adolescent sister, Lisel (Nele Trebs) in bare feet skips along their family garden’s courtyard to the same words. In the movie’s first moments, Lore sits in a bathtub singing a playground rhyme to herself. For who is more innocent of the sins of their father than a group of small children oblivious to their parents’ crimes? Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) is an elder daughter who is barely a teenager, but she is forced to lead her mostly helpless siblings through a post-Hitler Germany that is only beginning to confront its own painful horrors. The Aussie filmmaker’s German language film, based on a novel by Rachel Seiffert, challenges the viewer to understand its German protagonists and their own ethical angst. This question of murky moral complicity is a provocative one that Cate Shortland muddies even further in the new release, Lore. How can a society remain silent as atrocities are committed in their name? It is meant to remark, with irony and disdain, on how so many of the German people disavowed responsibility for the war crimes committed by the Nazi government, especially in the concentration camps. The phrase came about in 1945 after the Allied forces carved the country of the Third Reich into four, each occupied by an Allied nation (the U.S., Great Britain, France and the U.S.S.R.). ![]() To this day, the German people, as well as the supposed civilized West, still must struggle with the “Good German” syndrome.
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